Business Insights Manager
9 days ago
Denver
Job DescriptionSalary: $73,000 - $85,000 About the Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) & CED Law Our Mission We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive. Our Organization The Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) is a Colorado-based nonprofit. Launched in 2020 as the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, our organization was formed to keep our neighbors housed during the pandemic. Working with clients, we built a deeply integrative approach to eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed. Our team now serves more than 1,000 people per month, bringing together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients. We have served more than 68,000 low-income Coloradans across 54 counties, distributing more than $280 million in emergency assistance.We have also contributed to the passage of major legislation to prevent eviction, stop economic abuse, and make credit and life-saving medication cheaper. CEDPs model has been cited as a best practice by the White House and HUD in 2022-2023, think tanks like the Urban Institute, and in the media. Building on our work to stop evictions, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include disaster response, predatory towing, debt collection, benefit access & navigation, long-term rental assistance, and homelessness response. Similar to CEDPs work on rental housing, these efforts offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy. More about the Business Insights Manager Role: We are seeking a Business Insights Manager to help CEDP make data-driven decisions and raise funding for critical programming. In this role, your focus will be on short-term, high-impact analyses and business development projects with a bias toward measuring program outcomes and discovering, sizing, and implementing new revenue opportunities for CEDP. You will manage, plan, and execute key initiatives that align with the organization's broader mission to build economic and racial justice. Examples of projects led by this role could include: building scorecards to measure the efficacy of our housing and supportive services work; analyzing program data to uncover patterns of fraud, abusive landlords, or predatory HOAs; or drafting a major federal grant application in partnership with senior program leaders. These projects will leverage analytical and technology skills, as well as interpersonal and presentation skills. You will be a close collaborator with the leadership team and attend leadership meetings where you will learn first-hand how to build, run, and scale a social impact start-up. You will work closely with the CEO, VP of New Ventures, VP of Program Operations, and others on revenue opportunities, data analysis, and programs. Our CEO and VP of New Ventures are former management consultants; they understand how to offer the opportunity to achieve maximum impact, and will invest heavily in the individuals professional development. In this role you will: • Analytics & Data (50%), • Build data pipelines and dashboards to monitor key program metrics and outcomes (e.g., daily, weekly, and monthly call center performance dashboards), • Perform analyses in service of strengthening fundraising narratives and compiling grant reports requested by funders, • Conduct research on eviction prevention work to quantify CEDPs impact at the state level and understand the role of environmental variables outside of our control, • Analyze the efficacy of CEDPs work to measure short-term efficacy and longitudinal progress (e.g., housing stabilization after 12+ months) for our clients, • Engage in ongoing cross-functional data management and data visualization initiatives to advance the frontier of data-driven decision-making at CEDP, • Support program, policy, and other internal analytics needs on an ad hoc basis, • Business Development (40%), • Author proposals, review contracts, assess pricing, and provide negotiation support for emerging New Ventures opportunities, • Build pitch decks and demo materials for investors, funders, and external stakeholders, • Source new contracts and sales opportunities (e.g., government bids) and perform supporting analysis to shape pricing structures and other commercial terms, • Author drafts of grant applications, including research on the housing landscape, legal aid for renters, and the effectiveness of public human services programs, • Conduct market research to help us understand the fundraising ecosystem, target high-priority funders, and inform our organizations development strategy, • Identify foundation grants and federal/state money for which we might qualify, assessing the statutory qualifications and compliance requirements for each, • Improve database of existing CEDP content, streamlining materials used for grant applications and reporting (including reference tools), • Public Policy (10%), • Contribute directly to CEDPs policymaking agenda by researching and drafting proposed bills addressing eviction, foreclosure, and other economic justice issues, • Attend legislative sessions at the State Capitol and shadow CEDP courthouse clinics when opportunities are available Position Requirements: • 2+ years professional experience in management consulting, BizOps, corporate strategy, or equivalent roles, • Outstanding analytical problem-solving skills and command of Excel / Google Sheets, • Strong oral communications skills and the ability to influence leaders through logic, data, and presentation skills, • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to manage complex stakeholder environments, • Bias towards building and a comfort with strengthening a minimum viable product, • Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced, all-hands-on-deck environment, • Ability to work collaboratively with people of diverse personal and professional backgrounds with a focus on social and racial justice and equity, • Commitment to CEDPs Community Pledge and organizational values Preferred Experience: • 2+ years professional experience in development or product management, • Prior experience in nonprofit and/or public sector settings, • Command of programming languages for manipulating relational databases (e.g., SQL) and/or general programming languages (e.g., Python), • Knowledge of HubSpot or other CRM software (e.g., Salesforce) Why Us? • We are a social enterprise with a sustainable business model focused on one of the most important issues in society keeping people in their homes and maintaining access to affordable housing, • Opportunity for local involvement while making a statewide and even a national impact, • Unlimited growth potential within the organization, • The opportunity to step into a new organization six years after its founding and play a substantial role in its growth Additional Details: • Candidates must reside in Colorado, ideally within the greater Denver Metro area. The position includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), and 401(k)., • A base salary of $73,000 - $85,000 a year, plus a $1,000 per year hybrid employee salary adjustment, • All employees receive a technology stipend of $720 per year, • Employees who utilize two languages or more at work are eligible for a $2,000 salary differential per year added to the salary grade listed above. Language assessment will be conducted by the organization as a requirement to receive the differential, • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis but must be received by April 20, 2026, • The estimated time to complete the recruitment process will be by April 30, 2026, • As in-person work is required, all employees at CEDP & CED Law are expected to maintain current vaccination status in keeping with CDC recommendations., • CEDP is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.